Cait Conley, New York

Cait Conley, a fourth-generation Hudson Valley native, holds degrees from West Point, Harvard, and MIT. She served 16 years in the U.S. Army with six overseas deployments, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, earning three Bronze Stars. She later served as Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council and as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she led its election-security work. She brings practical, mission-driven leadership to the challenges facing New York families.